Privacy Policy for Ankshaastra

Effective Date: June 03, 2024

Welcome to Ankshaastra. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Ankshaastra collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this site when you sign up for a newsletter, purchase any product or service, or take part in a competition.

Controller

Ankshaastra is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Ankshaastra,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in this privacy policy).

Contact Details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Ankshaastra

Email address: eyn@ankshaastra.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on June 03, 2024. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth, time of birth, partner’s name, business name, and gender.
• Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address, business address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type, and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct Interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

• apply for our products or services;
  • create an account on our site;
  • subscribe to our service or publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
  • give us feedback or contact us.

• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as analytics providers, advertising networks, search information providers, etc.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new customer.
• To process and deliver your order including managing payments, fees, and charges.
• To manage our relationship with you.
• To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, or complete a survey.
• To improve our website, products/services, marketing, or customer relationships.
• To recommend products or services which may be of interest to you.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in paragraph 4 above:

• External Third Parties such as service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

6. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data including the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, transfer, or object to processing, and the right to data portability.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

10. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.